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JOHN M. WRAY is a son of John and Lucy (Thomas) Wray. He was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., March 23, 1828. His father was a tailor by trade but followed farming in later years. He died, as did his wife also, in 1849. Our subject spent his early life upon the farm, and secured what education was attainable in the old schools of the time. In his twenty-first year he began for himself by learning the saddler’s trade, at which he has since worked for thirty-five years, having given some attention also to farming and mercantile pursuits in this and Ballard County. He purchased his present farm in 1883; it is centrally located and is under a state of high cultivation and improvement. Mr. W. intends opening a store and starting a village, to be known as West McCracken, near his residence. He was married May 23, 1849, to Miss Nancy Neal, of Williamson County, Tenn. She died in January, 1860, leaving six children, of whom five are living. Mr. Wray was subsequently married to Mary J. Farmer, of McCracken County. There are seven children of this union.